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News and Views on Europe – 1 Feb 2019
As UK and EU clash over Irish backstop and window for negotiations narrow, businesses' worries for post-brexit future rise
On Tuesday, (29 Jan), British Parliament voted on two amendments. The first call for the rejection of a no-deal outcome and the second asked the Prime Minister to seek alternative arrangements to the controversial Irish backstop. The second amendment, put forth by senior MP Graham Brady with the backing of May's government aimed to send a very clear message to the EU. May hopes that with the voting result from the Parliament, she can re-open negotiations with the EU. However, Brady's proposal does not spell out what the UK wants in terms of changes to the Irish backstop in the current withdrawal agreement.
The EU's reaction to the votes by the British parliament was rife with frustration. Both Commission President Jean Claude Juncker and Council President Donald Tusk refused the possibility of re-opening negotiations when there is no clear consensus on the UK side and reaffirmed that the best deal was the current withdrawal agreement on the table. Other EU officials have come forward to collectively assert that nothing has changed as a result of the votes in the parliament with Juncker warning that the vote only "further increased the risk of a disorderly exit" of the UK. He added that the EU would have to prepare for all possible scenarios, "including the worst". As such, the EU has accelerated preparations for a no-deal Brexit, including implementing safety nets to ensure the protection of rights of students in Erasmus program as well as EU citizens living in the UK. The EU will also ensure UK honor its financial commitments for 2019.
On the Irish backstop, Brussels has maintained its support for Ireland on the border issue and has rejected both a unilateral exit mechanism for Britain and a time-limit on the backstop at UK's request. Irish PM Leo Varadkar has said Brexit is an act that has not been thought through by Britain. Of the proposal by Brexiteers to dissolve the hard border by means of technology, Varadkar states that he cannot exchange "a legally binding framework" for a mere promise.
Besides these two amendments, the House of Commons voted down other amendments, most notably one put forth by Labor MP Yvette Cooper and Tory's Nick Boles, that aims to give more time to get a Brexit deal by extending Article 50 if May cannot get a deal by February 26. Cooper and Boles pledged to return with another amendment if the prime minister fails in the renegotiations. The PM will return from Brussels with supposedly a revised deal that will once again pass through Parliament on Feb 13.
While the political drama over Brexit intensifies, business companies in Britain and worldwide are getting more worried and uncertain about the final outcome. A no-deal could disrupt ports, supply chains, and send shockwaves through financial markets, and business leaders are urging lawmakers to seal a deal quickly. UK retailers have also warned of rising food prices and empty shelves in case of a hard Brexit. In a letter that came ahead of Tuesday's Parliamentary vote, The British Retail Consortium, cited significant risks to UK's food security and impact on consumers should they revert to WTO rules without a deal with the EU. As more businesses adapt to a post-Brexit future, British public broadcaster, the BBC, is also considering opening a new major base in Europe, where it already has a news bureau in Brussels. The reason for this being that BBC is funded by British TV license fee as well as overseas sales, and needs to have a European presence.
Experts at Davos forum urged caution to avoid global recession amidst geopolitical risks
The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos highlighted the message that the world economy is slowing down with political risks abound. According to a survey of 1,000 experts and decision-makers, the outlook of investors and companies for the world economy is pessimistic. The world faces long-term and complex challenges, including climate change, the digital revolution, and an ageing population. However, CEOs are worried about some megatrends such as hardening political divisions, threats to multilateralism and cybersecurity risks, which point to an "era of insecurity". There were calls for more cooperation and togetherness at the WEF buttressed by a feeling of urgency.
Despite the geopolitical instability, experts warn that the perception of a worsening economic situation could actually make the risk of a self-inflicted recession higher. Chairman of consultancy firm, PwC, Bob Moritz, said that while the global economy is slowing, it is "not one that is catastrophic or going in the wrong direction" or going into a recession yet. Moritz believes that amidst the ups and downs, there are still opportunities for companies and decision makers to capitalize on. Citibank's chief economist, Catherine Mann, also reinforced the danger of a self-fulfilling prophecy and said "expansions do not die of old age, but of policy mistakes".
The present concerns at Davos were US-China trade tensions and Brexit; George Soros articulated the loudest concern against Xi Jinping's use of technology in governance. He encouraged Trump to maintain pressure on his counterpart and called Xi a threat to democracy and "open societies". Soros was referring to cybersecurity concerns that hit Poland as an employee of Chinese mobile company Huawei was charged with espionage activity.
Many European leaders have similar concerns about China's challenge to democracy and international norms but take a more nuanced view of China. According to an EU bulletin report, the EU is careful to not take sides in the US-China tensions and is developing a "Europe First" approach with "more pragmatic, hard-nosed policies" in line with their economic and strategic interests.
Big tech firms urged to do more against disinformation
Ahead of the European Parliament elections and in line with the Action plan against disinformation that the European Commission and High Representative presented in December 2018, big players in tech and advertising sectors that have signed the Code of Practice on Disinformation to address the spread of disinformation and fake news, were tasked to provide comprehensive reports on the actions they have undertaken since then to comply with their commitments. The reports were published on Tuesday, 29 January 2019 by the commission on their webpage.
The four online company signatories Facebook, Twitter, Google and Mozilla have taken efforts to meet their commitments. For instance, Facebook's political advertisement transparency system will be in place throughout the European Union prior to the elections. Google seeks to fight against fake accounts and websites and better promote and secure the transparency of political advertisements and their placements. Twitter has taken strict actions against fake or suspicious accounts and automated bots that perpetuate the distribution of disinformation and fake content. Mozilla will soon launch an update for its browser to block cross-site tracking by default, in the hopes that to limit information that can be used maliciously to perpetuate disinformation campaigns.
However, complying with all the commitments in the Code of Practice still requires significant efforts.
The European Commission issued a warning on 29 January to the tech and advertising companies to intensify their current efforts to combat disinformation before the elections, or risk regulations. In a press release by the European Commission, Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality had said: "With the launch of European election network with EU authorities last week and this report today, we are stepping up the pace on all fronts to ensure free and fair elections. I expect companies will fully follow up on their rhetoric and commitment. Time is short so we need to act now."
Andrus Ansip, Vice-President for the Digital Single Market echoed Jourová's statement, calling for signatories to "make sure these tools are available to everyone across the EU, monitor their efficiency, and continuously adapt to new means used by those spreading disinformation. There is no time to waste."
The tech giants are expected to provide detailed information to the Commission in the coming days. Monthly reports will be published from February 2019 onwards till May 2019. This will allow the Commission to ascertain the efficacy of the policies implemented to protect the integrity of the electoral processes that will be put in place before the elections start. Should these measures prove ineffective or unsatisfactory at the end of the Code's initial 12-month period, the Commission may propose further actions or even regulations against these tech giants.
Pro-European groups gearing up for the European Parliament Elections in May
Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian Prime Minister, would be running for the European Parliament elections, leading the Flemish Liberals party (Open VLD). Verhofstadt currently heads the wider Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the Parliament, and is the Parliament's Brexit coordinator. He has been earmarked as a potential leading figure to represent ALDE alongside European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager and Commissioner for Justice Věra Jourováof the Czech Republic. Verhofstadt said in a tweet that it was "now or never to reform Europe and to put a halt to nationalism." However, according to POLITICO's polls, his Open VLD party is set to be one of Belgium's biggest losers in the election, losing half of their votes and dropping from three seats to two.
In Germany, Liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) on Sunday (27 Jan) elected Nicola Beer as its spitzenkandidat (top candidate) at its European party congress. At the congress, the FDP stressed its pro-European position and attempted to dispel the impression that it is predominantly concerned about economic liberalism."Europe is not only an economic union but also a community of values," said Beer before she was elected as lead candidate. For the coming election, Beer makes clear that the FDP intends to focus on strengthening the EU in areas where there are "genuine European added value", such as fighting climate change, defence policy and in external representation. The FDP is concerned about achieving "both more and less Europe," where "EU can make the difference in the world if it speaks with a single voice," but should also independently solve issues that are better managed on a local level. To this, the FDP will champion for a leaner EU by reducing the current 28 Commissioners to a maximum of 18, abolishing the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), and ending the European Parliament's "travelling circus" between Strasbourg and Brussels.
Yanis Varoufakis, the leading candidate for leftist Democracy in Europe (DiEM25), told EURACTIV Germany on Monday (28 Jan) that he would run against the disunited and uncivilised European Left. "If the European Left were united, coherent and civilised, we wouldn't have created Diem25, we'd have joined them. Now we are running against them, which is very painful to us," the former Greek finance minister told EURACTIV Germany in an interview. Varoufakis also lashed out at leftist parties in Europe, arguing that their lack of unity cannot bring tangible electoral results and, hence unable to bring about changes in the continent. On the same day, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stressed the importance of progressive, pro-Europe parties to discard their ideological differences and uniting together in an alliance to ward against far-right, anti-Europe populists in the upcoming election. Referencing Portugal and Spain, Tsipras praised the two countries for successfully forming an alliance between the leftist and socialist parties."This broad progressive alliance will have a clear position against neoliberalism and those policies that fuel the far-right and anti-European populism," the leftist premier said. Tsipras also warned about the rise of the "new Right", represented by Hungary's Viktor Orbán, Austria's Sebastian Kurz and Italy's Matteo Salvini. "There is a great risk that the forces of anti-European right-wing populism will have significant gains in the coming years, and they will also take the lead in the forthcoming EU elections," he added.
A pertinent issue that all parties on either sides of the political dissonance have to address is the hotbed and polarizing issue of migration that has plagued the EU ever since the refugee crisis of 2015, when arrivals peaked that year to a million.
Former Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, said on Monday (28 Jan) that pro-European forces need to talk about migration at the European Elections. According to Letta, the lack of response to this critical issue from the pro-European left has given "decisive influence on the political earthquakes in several European countries". Letta, chairman of Jacques Delors Institute, spoke in Brussels at a presentation on a report titled "For a European policy on asylum, migration and mobility". He encouraged member states to show solidarity, make asylum processing more homogeneous, and the gradual integration of European and national border agencies.
EU defies U.S. on Iran Sanctions
Germany, France, and Britain have launched the so-called special-purpose vehicle (SPV), on Thursday (31 January 2019) to adhere to the European Union's (EU) efforts to keep Iran from quitting the 2015 accord to constrain its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. The U.S. pulled out of the deal in May 2018 and has since re-imposed sanctions on Iran. The SPV known as INSTEX – Instrument in support of trade exchanges – will help European firms with legitimate business interests to use barter techniques to conduct business in Iran. Additionally INSTEX also includes measures to protect European firms from US court actions and allow them to recover any financial damages related to the sanctions.
While the EU is not directly involved in the instrument, it is backing INSTEX. A draft EU statement seen by Bloomberg welcomes the initiative as providing "a positive impact on trade and economic relations with Iran, but most importantly on the lives of Iranian people."
In response, the Trump administration is said to be closely watching Europe's efforts, and has threatened strong economic consequences if Europe attempts to circumvent US sanctions on Iran, inclusive of stiff fines and penalties. The EU remains undeterred by the threats, and trans-Atlantic relations could potentially worsen over the SPV deal.
AP noted that the U.S. is worried that the EU SPV could become successful enough to contend with and ultimately replace SWIFT, an international bank transfer system. Additionally, the U.S. is concerned that other countries would follow in the EU's footsteps to sidestep US sanctions.
According to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has so far abided by the terms of the deal in regard to nuclear development. However, Iran has continued to test its ballistic missiles and this has led to the EU imposing its first sanctions on Iran since the 2015 deal.
Concerns have also been raised in a report by the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENSA) that if relations between Iran and the West worsen, Iran is likely to increase its cyber espionage activities. According to ENSA "Newly imposed sanctions on Iran are likely to push the country to intensify state-sponsored cyber threat activities in pursuit of its geopolitical and strategic objectives at a regional level," On January 25, France had said it stood ready to impose new sanctions on Tehran if talks on its missile program make no progress.


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Q: How to back a generic data structure with an array in Java? I have a good understanding of data structures and can happily implement them in C++ without issue; I get a little tripped up in Java though due to the generic implementation constraints.
Specifically, I get confused when I'm trying to create a data structure backed by an array.  I know, for example, that I cannot do this:
public class HashTable<T> {
    private T[] table;
    public HashTable() {
        table = new T[10]; //Type param T cannot be instantiated directly.
    }
}

I also know that if I back my generic array list with an object array, I'm going to have to suppress a number of "unchecked cast" warnings which seems of ill form.
What is the best way to create an array-based data structure in Java?  Is there some trick that can be used to do it in a cleaner manner than just creating a straight object array and dealing with the messy casting?

A: Instead of using a raw array, use an ArrayList<T>.  It's basically a generic wrapper around an array, with a bunch of additional features.

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Biden stands by August 31 Afghanistan exit as concerns grow over Kabul attacks
Speaking at the White House, Biden stressed the US was racing to achieve its targeted exit date as concerns mount over the threat of militant attacks.
Oliver Gray Markets Reporter [email protected] 25 August 2021 11:00 (AEDT)
US President Joe Biden discusses the situation in Afghanistan at the White House on August 24, 2021. Source: Yuri Gripas/ABACA Press via Reuters.
US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the US was on track to meet its Afghanistan evacuation deadline on August 31
However co-ordination with the Taliban remains crucial to meeting that target date
Meanwhile concerns are growing over the threat of suicide bombings by Islamic State at the airport in Kabul
So far US forces have helped to rescue 70,700 people from Afghanistan since August 14
US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the US was on track to meet its Afghanistan evacuation deadline on August 31, but added that reaching that goal was dependent on continued co-operation from the Taliban.
Speaking at the White House, Mr Biden stressed the US was racing to achieve its targeted exit date as concerns mounted over the threat of militant attacks.
"The sooner we can finish, the better," he said. "Each day of operations brings added risk to our troops."
Sustained co-ordination with the Taliban, which maintains that all foreign evacuations must be completed by August 31, remained crucial to meeting the deadline, Mr Biden added, calling it a "tenuous situation" with a "serious risk of breaking down as time goes on".
Both the Pentagon and the State Department have been asked to develop contingency plans to push past the cut-off date should it be necessary.
While US forces have helped to rescue 70,700 people from Afghanistan since August 14, Mr Biden's administration has faced intense criticism for its handling of the withdrawal. It's now working to rebuild a system for processing refugees that Mr Biden claims was "purposely destroyed" by his predecessor Donald Trump.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, two US officials said there was growing concern about suicide bombings by Islamic State at the airport in Kabul, which has been overwhelmed by Afghans and foreign citizens trying to flee.
One official said it was no longer a matter of if, but when, militants would attack and that the priority was to get out before it happened.
While the Taliban said the thousands of Afghans trying to escape had nothing to fear and should go home, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid added that the group had not agreed to an extension of the August 31 deadline and called on the US not to encourage Afghan people to leave their homeland.
Still, some Democrats in the US Congress argue that evacuations must be completed regardless of the target date.
"To me, the mission of evacuating personnel takes priority over deadlines," said Representative Jake Auchincloss, a former Marine who commanded infantry in Afghanistan.
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Alumnus, Jeter returns to bring Storm to '96-'97 days
by Brock Borgeson, Sports Editor
Leadership, trust, family and toughness were main things newly hired head football coach Matt Jeter emphasized in Hubbell Hall at Simpson College Tuesday in his introductory press conference.
Jeter addressed Storm football players, coaches and Simpson administrative staff with a concise and spirited message that seems to be indicative of the 33rd Simpson football head coach's approach to the new position.
"Coach Jeter laid out our goals and standards for us in a very clear and concise manner," sophomore offensive lineman Dustin Ihns said. "There is no confusion on what is expected of a Simpson football player."
Jeter went 22-2 as a defensive back between 1996-97 at Simpson College and never lost a regular season game before graduating from Simpson with a physical education degree in 1998.
"It's good to be home," Jeter said. "Coming back to your alma mater is a big deal. There is obviously a lot of tradition here at Simpson College. I feel confident that we are going to revive that tradition to get back to the days of '96 and '97."
This is Jeter's first head coaching position at the collegiate level after serving in a variety of assistant roles at Drake University and Central Missouri University.
The transition is quick but one that Jeter has wanted since getting into coaching.
"It's a little overwhelming at first," Jeter said. "The big thing now is that I need to realize that I've been preparing for this my whole life, and now I'm the head coach. So now I have to make those tough decisions and stand by them."
Junior defensive back Patrick Steffen shares the understanding of having played the same position at the same school as Jeter, a unique bond and one that will have to be fused over one year.
In Warrensburg, Missouri at CMU, Jeter helped generate 59 turnovers over the past two seasons, and will look to use players like Steffen to jolt a Simpson team that is 7-13 over the past two years.
"His coaching style is going to come from how he played when he was a defensive back at Simpson," Steffen said. "He wants to play tough, aggressive and detailed. He wants to lead us in the right direction so we can get this program back on the winning track."
Before serving as defensive coordinator, special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach at CMU, Jeter worked as a recruiting coordinator with Drake during his stint in Des Moines from 2002-09.
Finding the balance between recruiting and evaluating talent is key for Jeter in the crash-course offseason that has about a month of spring practices remaining.
"The biggest thing for me right now is to solidify those recruits that we have and those guys that are on the fence," Jeter said. "With the remaining practices, I just want to evaluate those guys on the field and find out who our leaders are going to be."
As a Des Moines Roosevelt graduate and previous assistant coach at Des Moines Lincoln, Jeter will have ties in the backyard of Des Moines to recruit but will likely continue to ongoing effort for Simpson football to extend its recruiting to western states and Florida.
For the players, it will be about adjusting to a new coach yet again after offensive coordinator role left vacant by Joe Beschorner was filled by Jeff Judge after the 2014 season. In total, five coaches in a number of roles have either changed roles or left during the last three years.
"It has been interesting to say the least," Steffen said. "I would say it has brought us closer as a team and especially the senior class. We have to rely on ourselves more and play for each other."
Matt Jeter Profile
Coaching Profile:
Simpson College: April 1, 2016 — Present, Head Coach
University of Central Missouri:
2011-15, Defensive Coordinator
2010, Special Teams Coordinator, Defensive Backs
Drake University: 2002-09, Defensive Backs/Recruiting Coordinator
Des Moines Lincoln HS: 1998, Assistant Coach
Simpson College: 1996-97
Went 22-2 at Simpson
Captain in the national semifinalist team in 1997
Iowa Central Community College: 1994-95
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Q: Header component not change React native I'm facing an issue in which header component does not change. It's same on all the screen even if I have defined separately in Stacknavigator navigationOptions.
<Header
  leftComponent={{ icon: 'menu', color: '#fff' }}
  centerComponent={{ text: 'MY TITLE', style: { color: '#fff' } }}
  rightComponent={{ icon: 'home', color: '#fff' }}
/>

Even if I have added in each screen separately but it's showing home (first header component) as attached.

I have also override navigation options on each screen as well but same header issue.
static navigationOptions = ({ navigation, screenProps }) => ({
   title: 'User List',
   headerTitle:'User List',
   headerTintColor :'#ffffff',
 });

Below is my complete code
const AppNavigator = StackNavigator({
              Login: {
                screen: LoginScreen,
                navigationOptions: {
                  header: null,
                  headerMode: 'none'
                }
              },

              Home: {
                screen: AppDrawerNavigation,
                navigationOptions: ({
                  navigation
                }) => ({
                  header: < Header
                  outerContainerStyles={{ backgroundColor: '#1999CE' }}
                  leftComponent = {
                   <Icon name='menu'  color='#ffffff' onPress={() => navigation.navigate('DrawerToggle')}/>
                 }
                  centerComponent = {
                                  {
                                      text: 'Home',
                                      style: {
                                          color: '#fff'
                                      }
                                  }
                              }
                rightComponent = {
                  {
                    icon: 'home',
                    color: '#fff'
                  }
                }
                />,

              }),
      },

      WebViews: {
        screen: AppDrawerNavigation,
        navigationOptions: {
          header: null,
          headerMode: 'none'
        }
      },

      Profile: {
        screen: ProfileScreen,
        navigationOptions: {
          headerStyle: {
            backgroundColor: '#1999CE',
          },
        }
      },
      UserList :{
        screen:AppDrawerNavigation,

        navigationOptions: ({
          navigation
        }) => ({

          title: 'List User',
          headerTitle:'List User',
          header: < Header
          outerContainerStyles={{ backgroundColor: '#1999CE' }}
          leftComponent = {
           <Icon name='menu'  color='#ffffff' onPress={() => navigation.navigate('DrawerToggle')}/>

         }
         centerComponent = {
          {
            text: 'List User',
            style: {
              color: '#fff'
            }
          }
        }
        rightComponent = {
          {
            icon: 'home',
            color: '#fff'
          }
        }
        />,

      }),
      }
    },
    {         navigationOptions: {
              headerMode: 'screen'
            },

    }
    );

const AppDrawerNavigation = DrawerNavigator({

              Home: {
                screen: HomeScreen,

              },

              WebViews: {
                screen: WebViewScreen,
              },
              UserList: {
                screen: UserListScreen,

              },
            },
            {
             navigationOptions: {
              headerMode: 'none'
            },
            drawerPosition: 'left',
            drawerWidth: 200,
            contentOptions: {
              activeTintColor: '#000000',
              activeTintColor :'#ffffff',
              activeBackgroundColor :'#1999CE',
              inactiveTintColor :'#1999CE',
              inactiveBackgroundColor :'#ffffff',
            }
          }

          );

Can you suggest a possible fix that would address this issue?

A: You can use withHeaders from this package react-navigation-utils to make custom headers for each screen.

A: Try this
    Home: {
            screen: HomeScreen,
           navigationOptions: {
              title:'Home',}
          },

          WebViews: {
            screen: WebViewScreen,
            navigationOptions: {
               title:'Web Views',}
          },
          UserList: {
            screen: UserListScreen,
            navigationOptions: {
            title:'User List',}
          },

hope it'll hepls you....


The norquay lookout located partway up the road to Norquay Ski Resort.
Banff Meadow (aka Tunnel Mountain Reservoir). This is also available for ceremonies.
Lake Minnewanka as seen above and nearby meadows as seen below.
Vermillion Lakes located at the base of the Norquay Road it is very realistic to visit both locations even with a short timeline.


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The wasps are always crawling around our back door. They love to build behind the siding. I walked out the door last week and got stung on two fingers. I had remember hearing that Witch Hazel(liquid) would get rid of the stinging and swelling. Within an hour of rubbing it on my fingers, the swelling and the pain was gone. And there was no itching that usually comes with healing.


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Ruth Asawa: The Sculptor of Interlocking Lines
by Michelle Konstantinovsky May 1, 2019
A tied wire sculpture by Ruth Asawa in the de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco.	Flickr (CC BY-2.0
Having spent my whole life in San Francisco, I can attest that Ruth Asawa's name was always in the air — the celebrated sculptor's career flourished in the city, she has a permanent collection at San Francisco State University, and the School of the Arts was renamed to honor her in 2010. But while San Francisco locals and art enthusiasts might be familiar with her, others may not know the work of this iconic Japanese American artist, so we kick off Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with a celebration of her life and work.
Born in Norwalk, California in 1926, Asawa grew up in a family of farmers, but was forced from her home and interned at the start of World War II, when 120,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast were sent to U.S. government internment camps. Despite the dire circumstances, Asawa's artistic curiosity and talent bloomed during her detainment. She learned various artistic modalities and techniques from fellow camp inmates during her time in camps in Santa Anita, California, and Rohwer, Arkansas. According to her 2013 obituary in The New York Times, it was during her five months at the Santa Anita Park Racetrack that three animators from the Walt Disney Studios gave her drawing lessons.
Ruth Asawa as a young woman.
Maia Valenzuela/Flickr (CC BY-2.0)
After 16 months of internment, Asawa was released and felt compelled to pursue the artistic passion she'd cultivated in the camps. She enrolled in Milwaukee State Teachers College in 1943 but she endured prejudice there and was not allowed to do her student teaching because of her Japanese heritage. In 1946, she moved on to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and it was there, under the guidance of teachers like Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller and Max Dehn that Asawa honed her personal style, exploring the intricate art of wire sculptures.
"I was interested in the economy of a line, enclosing three-dimensional space.... I realized that I could make wire forms interlock, expand, and contract with a single strand, because a line can go anywhere," Asawa said according to the David Zwirner Gallery, which represents her estate.
By the end of the 1940s, Asawa landed in San Francisco, with her husband, Albert Lanier. The couple raised six children together while Asawa built an incomparable career in the Bay Area. Employing Mexican wire weaving methods, Asawa created sculptures she said were inspired by "plants, the spiral shell of a snail, seeing light through insect wings, watching spiders repair their webs in the early morning, and seeing the sun through the droplets of water suspended from the tips of pine needles while watering my garden."
During her artistic renaissance, Asawa completed numerous public commissions that remain staples of Bay Area life, including the famous fountains of Ghirardelli Square. A longtime advocate of art education, Asawa worked tirelessly to expand access to programs in schools and in 1968, founded the Alvarado Arts Workshop, an organization that "facilitates hands-on participation in the visual and performing arts — taught by practicing artists," according to their website. Asawa was also responsible for helping to establish the city's first public arts high school in 1982, which was renamed the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in 2010.
Asawa passed away at age 87 in 2013, but her unique work and powerful legacy live on in the Bay Area and beyond. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York all feature permanent collections of her work, and several of her public works remain in her long-time home.
Detail of Ruth Asawa's San Francisco fountain in Union Square.
Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-3.0)
"It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time, your five minutes, your ten minutes," Asawa once told an interviewer. "All those begin to count up...Don't wait until your children are grown, until your husband is retired...Learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you."
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Since 1982, the city of San Francisco has honored the artist with Ruth Asawa Day, celebrated each February 12.
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Q: What is the use of WPFFontCache Service in WPF? WPFFontCache_v0400.exe taking 100 % CPU all the time this exe is running, why? What is acutally the functionality of WPFFontCache in WPF?. Sometime it is takeing too much CPU usage because of this system in hanging and my Application. Is there any problem disabling the service from the windows service. The big concern is why it is hanging my Application?.

A: Use This its is very useful for your solution:

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*Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services

*Scroll down to 'Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache 4.0.0.0' and then right click and select properties

*In the window then select 'disabled' in the startup type combo

A: From MSDN:

The WPF Font Cache service shares font data between WPF applications. The first WPF application you run starts this service if the service is not already running. If you are using Windows Vista, you can set the "Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Font Cache 3.0.0.0" service from "Manual" (the default) to "Automatic (Delayed Start)" to reduce the initial start-up time of WPF applications.

There's no harm in disabling it, but WPF apps tend to start faster and load fonts faster with it running.
It is supposed to be a performance optimization. The fact that it is not in your case makes me suspect that perhaps your font cache is corrupted. To clear it, follow these steps:

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*Stop the WPF Font Cache 4.0 service.

*Delete all of the WPFFontCache_v0400* files. In Windows XP, you'll find them in your C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Application Data\ folder.

*Start the service again.

A: After installing Free BitDefender AntiVirus the services related to the AntiVirus used about 80 MB of my computer's Memory. I also noticed that after installing BitDefender the service related to windows Presentation Font Cache was also installed: "WPFFontCache_v0300.exe". I disabled the service from stating automatically and now BitDefender Free AntiVirus use only 15-20 MB (!!!) of my computer's Memory! As far as I concern, this service affected negatively the memory usage of my PC inother services. I recommend you to disable it.

A: Shortcut way: (windows xp)
1) click Start > run > services.msc
2) Scroll down to 'Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache 4.0.0.0'
and then right click and select properties

A: for win xp
Steps

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*[windows key] + R, type services.msc, search for the running instance of "Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Font Cache". For my case its 4.0. Stop the service.

*[windows key] + R, type C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Application Data\, delete all font cache files.

*Start the "Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Font Cache" service.


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Demolition efforts are moving ahead on a historic but deteriorated building on the campus of what is now called the Cornell AgriTech at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Himalaya est un jeu de société français créé par Régis Bonnessée en 2004, illustré par Johann Aumaître et David Cochard, édité en France par Tilsit. Version commerciale du jeu Marchands d'empire que l'auteur avait mis à disposition des internautes par téléchargement, il propose à 3 ou 4 joueurs de s'affronter pour dominer commercialement, politiquement et religieusement une région de l'Himalaya.

Règle du jeu
Chaque joueur dirige une caravane de yacks qui doit voyager de village en village dans les chaînes himalayennes pour récolter et apporter les ressources nécessaires aux habitants (sel, orge, thé, jade ou or, chacune symbolisé par des cubes de couleur). Chaque lot de ressources apporté aux villages demandeurs permet au joueur d'étendre son influence économique, politique ou religieuse.

L'intérêt du jeu réside dans son mode planifié de déplacement. En effet, la configuration du jeu change à chaque début de tour, de façon que cinq villages soient en permanence demandeurs de ressources. En connaissance de cause, donc, les joueurs déterminent secrètement à l'aide de jetons spéciaux les six actions qu'ils souhaitent faire :
 Prendre un chemin (pierre, neige ou glace).
 Acquérir une ressource (si plusieurs, celle ayant le moins de valeur).
 Exécuter un contrat donné en fournissant des ressources au village.
 Ne rien faire.

Les contrats nécessite une certaine combinaison de ressources. Quand un joueur exécute un contrat, il choisit deux des trois actions suivantes :

 placer son influence religieuse sur le village
 placer des émissaires politiques dans la ou les régions adjacente(s) au village
 conserver la valeur économique du contrat (fonction des ressources nécessaires à sa conclusion)

La partie se déroule en 12 tours. À la fin des tours 4, 8 et 12, a lieu un inventaire : pour chaque ressource, le joueur qui en possède le plus (sans égalité) reçoit trois yachs (influence économique).

À tour de rôle, les joueurs dévoilent leur première action, puis leur deuxième, etc. Dans la mesure où les déplacements de ses adversaires ne sont pas connus à l'avance (mais souvent envisageables), il se peut que l'on ait plus ou moins de bonheur dans ses projets commerciaux.

Règles avancées : avant chaque début de tour, les joueurs peuvent choisir d'utiliser un pion spécial :

 marché : placé sur un village doté de ressources, il permet à chaque joueur de choisir la ressource qu'il souhaite dans ce village (sans soucis de valeur)
 tempête de neige : placé sur un chemin, il impose deux actions au lieu d'une pour franchir ce chemin
 empreintes du yéti : il interdit l'accès au chemin sur lequel il est placé

Chaque pion ne peut être joué qu'une fois dans la partie par chaque joueur et il ne peut y avoir qu'un seul type de pion actif par tour.

Le principal intérêt du jeu réside dans ses conditions de victoire :

À quatre joueurs :
 on commence par éliminer le joueur ayant le moins d'influence religieuse. On enlève tous ses pions du plateau
 puis on élimine le joueur ayant le moins d'influence politique
 enfin, le vainqueur est celui qui a le plus d'influence économique

À trois joueurs :

à compléter

Extension
Himalaya 5 & 6 permet de jouer jusqu'à six joueurs en apportant le matériel nécessaire, et propose des variantes de règles (disponibles sur le site officiel dans la rubrique Téléchargements). Cette extension a été créée en 2006 en collaboration avec Guillaume Blossier.

Récompenses

 En 2002, Tric Trac de Bronze sous le titre Marchands d'empire
 En 2005, nommé parmi les sept finalistes du Spiel der Spiele en Autriche
 En 2005, nommé parmi les cinq finalistes du Spiel des Jahres en Allemagne

Arrêt de l'édition
Le jeu Himalaya n'est plus édité depuis que la société Tilsit a cessé toute activité en .

Une nouvelle version, comprenant quelques variantes (fin du placement aléatoire des ressources et commandes, 3 à 5 joueurs) est disponible chez Libellud sous le nom de Lords of Xidit.

Lien externe
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Jeu de société
Jeu de gestion
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European citizen initiative Minority Safepack, which seeks to move European institutions to pass new pieces of legislation protecting minoritised languages in the EU, has achieved its goal to reach more than 1 million signatures. This fact will force the European Commission to take into consideration the petition, to meet with its promoters, and to give an answer on what it intends to do with the citizens' proposal.
Minority Safepack has been driven by FUEN, a European federation that brings together some 90 organizations representing stateless peoples, national minorities and minoritised linguistic groups. Its members are mainly found in Central Europe. But in countries where no FUEN member exist, some local organisations have joined the Minority Safepack effort, such as in the case of the Catalan Countries.
FUEN now wants the Commission to accept the proposal and to launch a European legislative procedure —at the European Parliament or the Council— for the EU to provide a legal basis for promoting minoritised languages in areas such as public services, the media, state and sub-state policies, education and culture.
The Commission, however, can also decide to finally shelve the citizens' initiative, despite the fact that it has achieved 1,215,789 signatures throughout the Union, according to FUEN's data. The proposal has also fulfilled the requirement of clearing a specific threshold of signatures in 7 member states. It has exceeded it in eleven: Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia.
Almost half of the signatures reached have been pocketed in Hungary, and a quarter of them in Romania. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán called on Hungarian citizens to sign the petition "to protect the rights of Hungarians beyond our borders." In Romania, main party of Transylvania Hungarians UDMR also joined the initiative. In fact, party president Hunor Kelemen has been one of the people in charge of announcing the global result today from Transylvanian capital Cluj.
But the milestone of the 1 million signatures would not have been achieved with Hungarian mobilization only. The remaining supports have arrived from the rest of the EU, where dozens of organizations, bodies, parties and institutions have called to sign. The Austrian case has been a very significant one because of its political mainstreaming: Minority Safepack has been supported by the president of the state of Carinthia, social democrat Peter Kaiser, the president of Tyrol, conservative Günther Platter, Greens' spokeswoman Regina Petrik and liberal party NEOS.
In the Italian Republic, presidents of South Tyrol and Trentino, Arno Kompatscher and Ugo Rossi, also called to sign the petition, as did the president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont. The Basque Parliament passed an institutional statement encouraging citizens to support it. Minority Safepack also gathered support from grassroots groups and parties from Brittany, Lithuania, Galicia or Friesland, to name a few, as well as the European Free Alliance.


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Sonic Hedgehog to the Rescue: Impressive Regeneration To Repair Large Bone Injuries
TOPICS:BonesKeck School of Medicine of USCOrthopedic ResearchRegenerative MedicineStem CellsSurgeryUniversity of Southern California
By Keck School of Medicine of USC May 17, 2022
AMer surgical rib resection (top), a cartilage and bone bridge form (second from top) and then resolve (third from top) and remodel to regenerate the missing tissue in the gap (boQom). Blue shows cartilage matrix; red shows mineralized matrix. Credit: Images by Stephanie Kuwahara and Max Serowoky, Mariani Lab
A stem cell study presents intriguing evidence that large bone injuries might trigger a repair strategy in adults that recapitulates elements of skeletal formation in utero. Key to this repair strategy is a gene with a fittingly heroic name: Sonic hedgehog. Researchers at University of Southern California (USC) conducted the research, which will be published today (May 17, 2022) in the journal NPJ Regenerative Medicine.
In the research, first author Maxwell Serowoky, a PhD student in the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Francesca Mariani, and his colleagues took a close look at how mice are able to regrow large sections of missing rib—an ability they share with humans, and one of the most impressive examples of bone regeneration in mammals.
To their surprise, the scientists observed an increase in the activity of Sonic hedgehog (Shh), which plays an important role in skeletal formation in embryos, but hasn't previously been linked to injury repair in adults.
Maxwell Serowoky, a PhD student in the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Francesca Mariani. Credit: Photo courtesy Cristy Lytal
In their experiments, Shh appeared to play a necessary role in healing the central region of large sections of missing ribs, but not in closing small-scale fractures.
"Our evidence suggests that large-scale bone regeneration requires the redeployment of an embryonic developmental program involving Shh, whereas small injuries heal through a distinct repair program that does not mirror development," said Mariani, the study's corresponding author and an associate professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Francesca Mariani, PhD, associate professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Credit: Photo courtesy of Francesca Mariani
Serowoky added: "It's still a fascinating mystery which factors or conditions result in Shh activity following large, but not small bone injuries."
In mice, Shh activity increased briefly after a large rib injury, and then quickly returned to normal levels within 5 days. Although transient, this increase in Shh was a prerequisite for successfully building a callus, which is an initial scaffold that bridges a fracture or injury but then converts to bone and regenerates the missing section of rib. Mice genetically modified to lack Shh couldn't successfully form calluses or heal their ribs.
In contrast, mice that had Shh at the time of injury, but were genetically altered to lose Shh after a 5-day healing period, were able to repair their ribs normally. A related gene known as Smoothened (Smo) was also required only during the first 5 days of the healing process.
The researchers expected that the source of Shh would be from specific progenitor cells that the group had previously shown to be essential for healing large injuries and that reside in the periosteum, which is the sheath of tissue surrounding each rib. Instead, they discovered that the source of Shh was an unexpected population of stem cell-like cells, known as mesenchymal cells. When these mesenchymal cells increased their Shh activity, this seemed to serve as a signal to summon a separate population of stem cell-like bone marrow cells to the injury site to assist in the healing process.
"Our discovery may inform future therapeutic strategies for situations where patients are missing large sections of bone following high energy injuries such as traffic accidents or combat wounds, or after cancer-related bone resections," said co-author Jay R. Lieberman, chair and professor of orthopedic surgery at the Keck School.
Reference: "A murine model of large-scale bone regeneration reveals a selective requirement for Sonic Hedgehog" by Maxwell A. Serowoky, Stephanie T. Kuwahara, Shuwan Liu, Venus Vakhshori, Jay R. Lieberman and Francesca V. Mariani, 17 May 2022, npj Regenerative Medicine.
Additional co-authors for this USC study include Stephanie Kuwahara and Shuwan Liu from the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, and Venus Vakhshori from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
The majority of this work (90%) was supported by federal funding from the National Institutes of Health (T32HD060549, R01AR069700, R01AR057076), and the remainder was supported by a Roy E. Thomas Graduate Fellowship and a USC Regenerative Medicine Initiative Award, which provided the initial pilot funding to bring together the basic researchers and surgeon-scientists who collaborated on this stem cell study.
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Police Shut Down the Wall Street Market, a Top Dark Web Site
Wall Street Market had more than 1.15 million users, who bought and sold drugs, stolen data, and malware. Now it's offline and German police have arrested three of the site's admins.
German police have shut down the "Wall Street Market," one of the biggest black market platforms on the dark web.
The site had more than 1.15 million customer accounts, and acted as a haven for criminals to sell drugs, stolen data, and malware. But on Friday, German authorities announced the arrest of three people suspected of operating the site.
The police have also seized the marketplace's servers, and replaced the website with a notice about the takedown. In addition, two of the highest-selling drug dealers on the platform have been arrested in the US.
According to the Justice Department, one of the suspects behind the Wall Street Market accidentally revealed his internet connections to the site's servers due to errors over a VPN, which should have encrypted his computer's web traffic. "When a VPN connection would fail, his IP (address) was revealed and authorities were able to identify his specific location," the department said in a statement.
Before its shut down, the Wall Street Market operated in six languages and hosted 5,400 vendors. To access the site, customers used the Tor browser, which can anonymize internet browsing sessions.
For each item sold on the Wall Street Market, the operators received a 2 to 6 percent cut. However, transactions on the site slowed significantly last month. According to US investigators, this was because Wall Street Market admins conducted an exit scam to empty all the virtual currency held in marketplace's escrow services and user accounts. In total, the administrators tried to plunder about $11 million, US investigators claim.
All three Wall Street Market admins are residents of Germany and were arrested there on April 23 and 24.
The Wall Street Market's demise is the latest dark web marketplace international authorities have taken down. On the same day, European authorities announced they had also pulled the plug on Silkkitie, another dark web marketplace. "No matter where they live, we will investigate and prosecute criminals who create, maintain, and promote dark web marketplaces to sell illegal drugs and other contraband," said US attorney McGregor Scott.
By seizing the Wall Street Market's servers, investigators may also have a chance to determine who else was buying and selling on the site.
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